Woot! The Bad Day LA Trailer is up on IGN!

IGN: Bad Day L.A. Trailer and Wallpaper
Bad Day L.A. Trailer and Wallpaper
Not just your usual traffic jams and riots.
by Tom McNamara
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September 1, 2005 – In the movies Los Angeles has long been a town ravaged by one kind of destruction or another, whether it’s a volcano popping up to say hello on Wilshire, or an earthquake splitting the town in two and turning Beverly Hills into a freak show prison. So maybe it was only a matter of time until one game combined all the possible disasters and threw you in the middle of it, in the role of Anthony Williams, a homeless man who finds himself coming to the rescue of the City of Angels, battling off problems like zombie infestation, terrorism, and jumbo-sized natural disasters.

Go check it out!

I came across this brilliant article while reading about the destruction caused by hurricane Katrina…

“Although the loss of lives is deeply saddening, this act of God destroyed a wicked city,” stated Repent America director Michael Marcavage. “From ‘Girls Gone Wild’ to ‘Southern Decadence,’ New Orleans was a city that had its doors wide open to the public celebration of sin. From the devastation may a city full of righteousness emerge,” he continued.

New Orleans is also known for its Mardi Gras parties where thousands of drunken men revel in the streets to exchange plastic jewelry for drunken women to expose their breasts. This annual event sparked the creation of the “Girls Gone Wild” video series.

I love how when a hurricane strikes an “evil city” it is an act of a vengeful God. When tornadoes ravage the mid-west and destroy churches it is God acting in “mysterious ways”. You would think that if there were actually some correlation between God’s desires and events on earth that mankind would have deciphered the clues long ago. Evil dictators would suffer under mountains of frogs, murderers and rapists would exhibit an unusually high rate of lightning strike related death, and the “righteous” would walk in the rain without umbrellas and never get a drop on them.

Earth to Michael Marcavage: It doesn’t work like that.

Some Bad Day LA promo posters sure to upset Hillary Clinton.

You can grab the full size versions here.

On Thursday, September 1st, 2005, the first video trailer for my upcoming game title, Bad Day LA is going to make its worldwide debut. It will be released through gaming website IGN. The trailer is a fast paced, action-filled romp through some visually intense and darkly funny disaster scenes pulled straight from the game’s animated sequences.

What: Bad Day LA Trailer Debut
Where: http://pc.ign.com
When: September 1st, 2005

Be sure to check it out and pass the word!

For your web pleasure…

(Image by Kin, Bad Day LA concept art)

I am a frequent reader of a column by writer Fred Reed. His views on many things having to do with life, politics, and the world in general are usually spot-on, humorous, and very much in line with my own views. One of his recent posts echoed the tag line for Bad Day LA (“Are you prepared?!”), so I feel compelled to share it:

August 14, 2005
Washington, DC—

It’s getting stranger, I tell you. Riding the subway from Vienna Station to Franconia-Springfield, at every stop the woman driving the train said in an over-elocuted voice, “A-ten-tion, customers. This is a Metro Safety Tip. Pay attention to your surroundings. Look up from your newspapers and blackbirds [it sounded like, though nobody seemed to be carrying any sort of bird at all] every now and then. Report suspicious activity to Metro employees immediately.”

Then—I can’t stand it: “Let’s be pre-pared, not scared.”

Seriously. Is this the world we live in now? I get the distinct feeling that no one in the Whitehouse has ever seen the film Brazil. It really is getting stranger.

Read the full article here.
You can check out Fred’s full site here.